Friday, January 30, 2015

How the World is Becoming More Virgo

was very annoyed on a
recent trip to Safeway to find the cart handle and hand sanitizer empty—again!
That’s when I got it. The world is becoming more Virgo, and complementary
disinfectant at the door of most grocery stores is only one example. A few
observations:

Virgo Signs of the Times

Hygiene. There
was the day when Virgos were made fun of for being OCD. No one thinks hand
washing is tantamount to obsessive compulsive disorder anymore. With the
outbreak of so many dread diseases, Ebola being just one of them, the whole
human race is becoming savvy to what Virgos have known all along. Hygiene
counts!

Healthy, Natural
Food. Healthy food choices are no longer the realm of veg heads and/or
Virgos or people with too many planets in the sixth house. People want pure, unadulterated,
non-GMO, non-bug-sprayed food. Suddenly, this desire has reached critical mass
thanks to filmmakers like Richard Linklater (Fast Food Nation) and
the divine domino effect of people who finally get that “you are what you eat.”
Michael Moore’s film Sicko
about our broken health care system in the USA is probably all the incentive
anyone needs to practice prevention, starting with diet.

Non-Shrink Analysis. People
with the V-sign in their charts like to analyze things. With the way modern
communications and inventions have speeded up the pace of life, the results are
a world of constant choices. Everyone needs this Virgoan skill, and I notice
that modern humans are honing it more than ever. I mentioned this idea in The
Radical Virgo Revisited. The need to sift, winnow and digest data grows
exponentially with every new major social media site and gismo.

Facility with the
Written Word. If you’re past your Chiron Return, did you ever think writing would be the major way people
would use to communicate every day? Or typing for that matter? Virgos are the writers
and secretaries of the zodiac, and now we are all writers and our own
secretaries when it comes to our communications. Even CEOs and presidents do
it. To look good “out there,” you’ve also got to brush up your grammar,
spelling and general writing skills. How Virgo is that?

Small Pets. The
most talked about topic on Facebook is cats! But don’t think Facebookers are
leaving out their dogs, gerbils, ponies or pot-bellied piglets. They post their
photos, discuss their health status (see above) and mourn with their virtual Facebook
family when they lose their fur babies. They post pet jokes, pet tips—and pets
even have their own
social media sites. Now, I’m not saying love of pets is strictly the realm
of the Virgo, but the obsession with small critters seems to be a growing trend
that, in my mind, is part of the Virgo New World Order.

Why So Virgo Now?

I wondered: Why was I noticing a shift toward more Virgo-ish concerns nowadays?
If a conjunction starts a cycle, we can look to the 1960s when Pluto and Uranus
were conjunct in Virgo to see what got started and what’s coming in this pair's next
“crisis of evolution,” represented the Pluto/Uranus
square(s) of the past three years. I like the summary of
events of the Pluto/Uranus conjunction that started it all, reported in this short piece on The
Astrology Place website:

The contraceptive pill became available, a vehicle of feminine empowerment.

Concerns about sexually transmitted diseases accompanied the introduction of the pill, along with concerns about the relationship among body, mind, spirit--and the planet.

Attitudes began changing about health, habits and our past abuse of resources.

The Sixties reflected radical changes in thinking about daily
living, and the initiating cycle of Pluto and Uranus in Virgo, back then, was
complemented by Chiron in Virgo’s other polarity, Pisces. Chiron
was in Pisces then as it is now. I like to think the Sixties are coming of
age these days, both for elevating some of these concerns and highlighting how
much more work there is to do to achieve personal and planetary health and
holism.

So wash your hands, eat your organic vegetables, and
brush up your analytical, writing and organizing skills. Bring your pet along
fur inspiration. To borrow a line from the Desiderata, no doubt the universe and
the Radical Virgo vision are unfolding as they should.

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